Richard Parker (author)

Richard Parker was an American author from El Paso, Texas. The son of an American father and a Mexican immigrant mother, he became an author and wrote Lone Star Nation, which explored the history of Texas. In August 2019, in the aftermath of a white supremacist terrorist attack in El Paso, Parker wrote a New York Times op-ed in which he praised El Paso's multicultural community and accused President Donald Trump of creating the hate which led to the massacre.